MSNBC’s Fractured Logic: ‘Free Expression’ a Threat to Free Expression
David Milliken
February 28th, 2025 8:31 PM
MSNBC’s staggering lack of self-awareness was in rare form Thursday. That night on The 11th Hour, Marty Baron, former executive editor of The Washington Post, opined on the Post’s recent espousal of personal liberty and free market views. Baron was outraged that the paper had taken positions he happened to dislike, and called the move “undemocratic,” suggesting, ironically, that the free press was in danger.
Ruhle began with the heavy pronouncement, “It is a challenging time to be a journalist in America.” She then explained that the previous day Washington Post owner Jeff Bezos had adopted a new policy of endorsing “personal liberties and free markets” in the paper’s opinion section. “What do you make of what’s happening right now(…)?” she asked Baron.
Baron nebulously said he was “very concerned about it because of what it represents.” “I actually don't know any columns that ran in The Washington Post that were against personal liberties,” he huffed, not explaining what the problem was.
He then claimed that it was somehow a form of “cancel culture” of “liberal opinions,” which sounded like a tacit admission that liberal opinions were antithetical to personal liberties.
https://newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/david-milliken/2025/02/28/msnbcs-fractured-logic-free-expression-threat-free-expression
